S. Lochlann Jain

S. Lochlann Jain is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University, where she teaches medical and legal anthropology. Her research is devoted to understanding how the inevitable injuries of mass productions and consumption are understood in the United States.

Education

Dr. Jain completed a BA at McGill University, an MPhil at the University of Glasgow, a PhD in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California Santa Cruz, and a Post-Doc at the University of British Columbia. She has received the Cultural Horizons Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, and is a National Endowment for the Humanities grant recipient. Dr. Jain has held Fellowships at the National Humanities Center and the Stanford Humanities Center.

Books and research

Dr. Jain is the author of the widely reviewed[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] book Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States.[8] Jain also published Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us[9] in 2013. Malignant offers an analysis of cancer as an all-encompassing aspect of American culture. It was praised in Nature Magazine as being "brilliant and disturbing."[10][11] "Malignant" was awarded the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing [12] and the Diana Forsythe Prize.[13]

Publications

Notes and references

  1. Aneesh, Aneesh. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31(1): 154-157.
  2. Bryan, Bradley. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law, Culture and the Humanities 4: 453-456.
  3. Cole, Simon A. 2007. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law, Culture and the Humanities 48 (April): 450-451.
  4. Daniels, Stephen. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law and Society Review 42(2): 443-445.
  5. Gallagher, William T. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. Law and Politics Book Review 18(1): 4-6.
  6. McLaughlin, George E. 2007. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. TRIAL 43(3):68.
  7. Murphy, Michelle. 2008. Review of Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain. American Anthropologist 110(3): 390-391.
  8. Dr. Jain's book on Amazon
  9. http://www.ucpress.edu/go/malignant
  10. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7470/full/502167a.html
  11. http://www.malignant.us
  12. http://sha.americananthro.org/sha-prize-winners/
  13. http://gad.americananthro.org/awards/

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